Needless to say, she felt a sense of shabbyness coming over her face when she looked at the recipe.
"Young prince, are you... are you serious about your duck blood? This is the New Year's Eve banquet that Emperor Wei hosted for officials and sixty-year-olds. Isn't it too shabby?"
Shen Binglan looked at Qin Yu and couldn't help but persuade him.
She is not a luxurious and picky person to begin with.
But the duck blood, cabbage, radish, and tofu really made her unable to hold back.
Except for the mutton and chicken, there is no meaty taste at all.
Qin Yu smiled indifferently, and Feng Qingyun said calmly: "It doesn't matter, just wait and see. Is there anything bad about what I made? High-end ingredients often only require the simplest cooking methods.
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Shen Binglan: "..."
The problem is, your ingredients don't seem to be very high-end.
Immediately afterwards.
Qin Yu started making sesame paste.
Making sesame paste is a delicate job.
Prepare white sesame seeds, salt and sugar.
After the pot is hot, add the sesame seeds and stir-fry directly. Be careful with your hands so that the sesame seeds don't burn.
Stir-fry until there is a crackling sound in the pot, and the sesame seeds are probably cooked.
Then put the sesame seeds into a grinding pot and start rolling them. At the same time, add an appropriate amount of salt and sugar to enhance the flavor.
It's quite laborious to crush it. Once the oil comes out of the sesame paste and turns into a fluid, it's basically done.
Qin Yu struggled for half an hour before making a small jar of sesame paste.
Shen Binglan looked at the white sesame seeds on the side, and then at the sesame paste in Qin Yu's hand, her beautiful eyes filled with confusion.
She didn't understand why the cooked sesame seeds didn't turn into crushed sesame seeds, but turned into paste with a fragrant aroma.
Qin Yu handed the jar of sesame paste to Shen Binglan, "How is it? Does it smell good?"
Shen Binglan nodded.
Qin Yu smiled and said: "This is the soul of hot pot. You will be in a good mood soon."
Immediately afterwards.
Qin Yu started to prepare other ingredients.
After working hard until noon, Xiao Nan came back from the Ministry of Works carrying three small copper pots.
Qin Yucai prepared all the ingredients.
They had to try it first no matter what.
...
East Palace.
Yinghua Hall, Nuan Pavilion.
Qin Yu, Xiao Nan and Shen Binglan were sitting in front of three tables respectively.
There was a copper plate on the table in front of them. Inside the copper plate was a copper hot pot. Charcoal was burning inside the hot pot, and the clear soup was bubbling in the pot.
Xiao Nan and Shen Binglan are no strangers to cooking food, which is also a common cooking method in this era.
But this was their first time seeing such a cooking pot.
In addition to the copper pot, there are also seasonings and ingredients placed on the table.
Prepared sesame paste, minced onions, minced garlic, minced coriander, cabbage slices, radish slices, tofu cubes, fungus, mutton slices, chicken balls, duck blood and other hot pot ingredients.
Xiao Nan observed the hot pot curiously, and then looked at the rich hot pot ingredients.
But no matter how you look at it, it feels a bit shabby, but the benefits are real.
Xiao Nan looked at Qin Yu and frowned slightly, "Brother-in-law...is this hot pot?"
Qin Yu nodded, "Why? Isn't it rich enough?"
"this......"
Xiao Nan smiled helplessly, "Fengfeng is rich enough, but it's not very high-end. It doesn't have any fishy taste, but the sesame sauce is quite fragrant."
Qin Yu said lightly: "This can reflect our theme, which is to be diligent and frugal, rich but not extravagant, delicious and economical."
Xiao Nan frowned even more tightly.
this......
Can this be delicious?
Of course, Xiao Nan just questioned it silently in his heart and did not dare to say it out.
Immediately afterwards.
Qin Yu stopped talking nonsense and put the mutton slices into the hot pot.
Xiao Nan and Shen Binglan followed Qin Yu's example and put the meat slices into the pot.
The mutton slices Qin Yu cut were very thin, and the color changed after tumbling a few times in the hot soup.
Then, he took out the cooked mutton slices, put them in a bowl, covered them with sesame sauce, and put them in his mouth.
The meat was tender but not greasy, mixed with the mellow sesame sauce. This long-lost taste almost made Qin Yu shed tears.
Xiao Nan also put the mutton covered in sesame sauce into his mouth and chewed it carefully.
Just this one bite.
Xiao Nan's eyes widened in an instant, with a look of wonder on his face, "Thief against your mother! Thief against your mother!"
While sighing and chewing, he poured a whole plate of mutton on the table into the pot.
As the prince, Xiao Nan lived a very simple life under the education of Emperor Wei, but at least he had seen the big world.
But the aroma of the hot-boiled mutton slices wrapped in sesame sauce won him over instantly.
"Deng Bao! Deng Bao!"
Xiao Nan shouted while stirring the mutton slices in the pot.
"Your Highness, this servant is here." Deng Bao's head poked in from outside the Nuan Pavilion.
Xiao Nan held up the empty plate with excitement on his face, "I will serve you ten more plates of this mutton slice, no... thirty more plates! You want it freshly cut and thinner!"
"Yes, Your Highness!" Deng Bao responded, and then hurried out of the palace.
Shen Binglan ate slowly, not as voraciously as Xiao Nan, nor as exaggerated as Xiao Nan's performance.
But the taste of sesame sauce paired with the hot-boiled mutton also amazed her. Even the cabbage slices, radish slices and tofu were boiled and paired with sesame sauce.
Now she finally understands why Qin Yu said sesame paste is the soul of hot pot.
She knew that Qin Yu was very good at barbecue, but she didn't expect that he was not only good at barbecue, but also had a lot of research on food.
Qin Yu ate mutton, drank Shao Knife, and said with a smile: "How is it? The mutton boiled tastes good, right?"
Xiao Nan carefully picked up all the mutton slices in the pot, then put them into a bowl and covered them with sesame sauce. The full bowl was pulled into his abyss, and he just extended his thumb to Qin Yu and opened his mouth.
There was no time to speak at all.
Shen Binglan looked at Qin Yu and nodded slightly, "The ingredients are simple, the taste is delicious, and the eating method is very fresh and unconventional. If it is served at Qiansou Banquet, it will definitely amaze everyone."
Shen Binglan gave the most pertinent evaluation.
Now, with fireworks in one hand and hot pot in the other, Qin Yu's mission has basically been completed.
And it doesn’t cost much at all.
Fireworks raw materials are available at Fireworks Factory, and the ingredients are also from Imperial Kitchen.
Qin Yu doesn't need to purchase anything extra at all.
With these two things, Qin Yu will definitely be able to make Qiansou's banquet a complete success.
The key is that Qin Yu also has the killer weapon Watermelon.
Even Emperor Wei had never eaten this stuff in winter.
at the same time.
Deng Bao brought people in and brought in all the freshly cut mutton slices.
Xiao Nan hurriedly said: "Tahini! There's no more sesame!"
"Slave, go get it now!" Deng Bao hurriedly led the people away.
Xiao Nan finished the sesame paste in his bowl, and then he had time to talk to Qin Yu, "Brother-in-law, I am really convinced by you! How can you make such delicious things with such simple ingredients!"
As he spoke, he added, "Can you lend me some of your sesame paste first?"